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Highly recommended: WordPress guru Lorelle VanFossen's February 13, 2007, post at The Blog Herald headlined "Selling Your Blog: What Are Blog Buyers Looking For?" This is the most important post I've ever seen of this subject.
Recommended: David Krug's December 16, 2006, post headlined How I Make Money Online. It's posted over at Work Boxers, which Dave just acquired from James Martin. He is also the proprietor of 901 am and HelloCowboy.com. He also founded Jack of All Blogs
As I've said before, if you need help selling or buying a good blog Dave's the man to call. And thanks to Duncan Riley down under --- that's Australia --- for the tip about Work Boxers. See his "Cowboy buys Workboxers."
UPDATE: In a December 7, 2006, post headlined "J. Angelo Racoma Will Help Abe Olandres Manage The Blog Herald," I wrote, among other things:
The Herald is under new ownership. According to Olandres, considered "The Philippines' most successful blogger," "Bloggy Network Ltd., a UK-based company (not to be confused with Bloggy Network, LLC)," bought The Herald, which was founded by Australian Duncan Riley. In February 2006, Riley sold it to b5Media, now Problogging, Inc.
I was wrong. According to former Blog Herald publisher Matt Craven, "Duncan sold it to BlogMedia, later Problogging, Inc. - not b5media." Matt, thanks for the correction.
Thord Daniel Hedengren over at Bloggertalks.com has a fascinating and informative interview with "Matt Craven on buying and selling The Blog Herald, and the future of ex-BlogMedia." There are lessons there. I highly recommend it.
After you read the interview, go over to Thord's TDH blog and read "The trouble of finding a good dotcom name." I can relate to it.
The new owners of The Blog Herald, one of my favorite media blogs, explain why they bought it and what their plans are for it. See "A Word From the New Blog Herald Owners."
According to Abe Olandres, considered "The Philippines' most successful blogger," "Bloggy Network Ltd., a UK-based company (not to be confused with Bloggy Network, LLC)," has bought The Herald, which was founded by Australian Duncan Riley, who in February 2006 sold it to Problogging, Inc., formerly b5Media.
"Today, December 5th, 2006, is the day that we legally become owners of BlogHerald.com, and our contract with Problogging Inc. takes effect," Olandres told Herald readers.
He said Bloggy Network, Ltd "will be running the Blog Herald separately from the rest of our network." The company will also renew the contracts of the current writers.
To read why Problogging, Inc. sold The Herald, see Matt Craven's "We’ve sold The Blog Herald."
"Mediabistro, the networking, jobs and news website for journalists, PR people and other communications pros, is on the block, according to several people familiar with the discussions," New York Business.Com reported August 15, 2006.
If you want to read more, see "Mediabistro said to be on the auction block."
Elliott Wave International reported July 31, 2006 that, "Through the first six months of 2006, some $255 million in venture capital flowed into blogging/social networking businesses, which is more than the total investment for all of last year."
For more, see "Blogging, Politics, and the Next Big Thing."
The March 20, 2006 issue of Newsweek has a feature on Jason Calacanis headlined "AOL's Blog King." I found it inspirational.
The publication noted that, "Last October, the question of whether blogging could be a business was pretty much decided when AOL paid a reported $25 million for Weblogs, Inc., a network of almost 100 blogs on topics like technology, travel and parenthood."
Calacanis, who runs Weblogs, Inc for AOL, co-founded the firm with Brian Alvey.Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put up seed money.
Now that Duncan Riley of Australia has sold The Blog Herald to BlogMedia, Inc., I wonder if it will keep its biting tone or become a whisper. I guess we'll have to just wait and see.
Here's the BlogMedia, Inc. announcement of the acquisition.
Billionaire Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, is wasting no time in expanding the reach of MySpace.com, which he bought from Intermix Media in July 2005, for $580 million.
Rowan Bridge, the BBC Radio Five Live reporter in Las Vegas to cover the National Association of Television Program Executives, reported January 24, 2006 that, "A UK version of the social networking site MySpace.com is to be launched "within the next 30 days".
"The announcement was made by Fox Interactive Media president Ross Levinson," he wrote. The BBC said, "Some 32 million of these are actively using the [MySpace.com] site."
For more, please see "MySpace looks to UK music scene."
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